It’s been too long since I’ve been here and created a post. I’m not often lost for words as Joe (and most people who know me!) will tell you but the last 18months has had me sometimes lost for words and more commonly, unable to fully articulate into words what my heart wants to say.…

Following on from the success of mini break, we decided to take the terrific twosome on a slightly longer break. We spent a week in Pembrokeshire in July (yes I am very late updating this but that’s a whole other set of posts), and we took into consideration some of the lessons learnt from mini…

Like many many others, we have not travelled anywhere in the last 18 months. This is 99.9% due to COVID, 0.1% due to Sam and Bea, for different reasons. Sam took a long time to settle here, and even now still has his moments where he has to retreat to his safe spot on his…

Could you have possibly known a year ago what was waiting for you? Did they tell you on that last day that you woke up in kennels that you were going home that afternoon? That first afternoon – I think we were all a bit overwhelmed and unsure, and some of the weeks and months…

It’s been a while… we seemed to have settled into some sort of happy state and routine that has made the days fly by. A couple of local walks around the racecourse, food and games and lots of sofa cuddles. Then the world started to open back up again… This is a good thing. It’s…

Sam loves his little big sister Bea. They are not just siblings by adoption, they are actually related. They are half siblings with the same father – not that you would believe that to look at them and not that they are aware of that. They just know that they have us and each other…